After a Canadian national working as a NATO intern in Belgium was arrested on suspicion of espionage, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadian officials have been involved from the start.
“Any time you have a situation, you should take stock and take lessons from this,” Carney said in response to questions from reporters on Aug. 5.
First do no harm.
That’s not an easy ask of anyone trying to defend their country’s interests in a negotiation with U.S. President Donald Trump. Not when he’s wielding the world’s biggest economy as a weapon, and seems less interested in strengthening it than in harming others.
Corporate welfare by Canada’s federal and provincial governments has more than tripled since 2015 and is strangling economic growth, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
It found corporate subsidies totalled $87.7 billion in 2024 alone, with $44.7 billion coming from the federal government and $43 billion from the provincial governments combined.
That more than tripled the 2015 level of $25.1 billion, adjusted for inflation and population growth.
Tripled since 2015 you say? Now what is it about that very special year? Ah well socialism for the rich etc.
OTTAWA — A senior Public Safety official says the federal government has told its Indian counterparts that there is “zero tolerance” for transnational repression and foreign interference by its diplomats.
In a recent letter to advocacy group Sikhs for Justice (SJF), a top Public Safety official assured the group that the government has “made it clear to senior Indian officials that there is zero tolerance for transnational repression or other illegal activities by foreign diplomats in this country.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to look at this poll and understand one simple thing: People will not accept a gas tax hike in September.
New polling shows 63% of Canadians oppose the federal government’s plan to hike fuel taxes next month.
Carney suspended the federal fuel tax in April to give Canadians a break at the pumps, saving 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents per litre of diesel.
OTTAWA – Defence Minister David McGuinty has acknowledged that the procurement review of F-35 fighter jets is a “point of debate or dialog” as tense trade negotiations with the United States continue.
When asked by reporters in Ottawa on Monday about whether the F-35 decision is part of the trade war, McGuinty said that “acquisition of that size would normally be a point of debate or dialog between two sovereign nations.”
“This is not the only factor involved in a multi-party, multi-element, multi-stakeholder type of negotiation. This negotiation with the United States is extremely complex,” he added.
When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht had in use trucks from virtually every nation they had conquered.
Few were suitable for “Russian Roads” and repair was a logistical nightmare.
I fear our air force of many nations will be just like that.
Canada’s economy is booming, as long as you ignore the actual data and upcoming revisions. Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows seasonally adjusted employment climbed by 75,000 jobs in July. The unseasoned reality was a little less savoury, showing a 6-digit decline in the same month, along with rising unemployment. The picture may be even worse than presented, with a Big Six bank projecting substantial upward revisions to population estimates in just a few weeks.
A Montreal man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats towards Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Marc Porlier, 51, appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Aug. 8.
He was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm to a person under section 264.1 of the Criminal Code, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
The federal government is pumping $100 million into Canada’s steel industry with a new program that will pay for half the costs of transporting Canadian-made steel by ship or by rail within the country.
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon made the announcement Monday in Hamilton, where he said the Commodities Sectoral Support Program is a direct response to U.S. tariffs being slapped on Canadian goods.
The U.S. currently has imposed anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and copper, and derivative products.
Mark Carney has always faced a conundrum when it comes to making a trade deal with Donald Trump. There’s pressure to get a deal, but it would require concessions that come at a political cost.
Now that squeeze is even tighter. At a critical time.
Canada and the United States are talking about a deal again, after a long period when there weren’t really any serious negotiations going on.
Fighting mood? For what exactly?
The Liberal’s ruinous reign of harm?
The good old days were in fact very very bad days for Canadians starting with Trudeau.
OTTAWA — With the Trump Administration’s deadline to slap Canada with 50% tariffs looming a little over a week away, Prime Minister Mark Carney is spending the week in Italy on vacation.
In a note sent to the Parliamentary Press Gallery on Saturday, the PMO announced that Carney will be “on a reduced schedule in the week of Aug. 10, and that Carney will be in Italy “for personal commitments until Aug. 17.”
OTTAWA – The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage.
“Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory — a multi-phase, multi-year project that will ultimately measure the extent and spread of news deserts and areas of news poverty in Canada,” the department said in a December memo to the culture minister.
Location scouting for paid media?
Prime Minister Mark Carney should extend the federal fuel tax holiday at least to the end of this year because his government is currently hoarding billions of dollars in windfall revenues paid by Canadian taxpayers due to high oil prices.
The proposed expansion of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport was a test case for Prime Minister Mark Carney – and a fairly straightforward one, too.
Here was an infrastructure project that did not involve multiple jurisdictions, competing provincial interests, or Indigenous land claims (though in late May, the Haudenosaunee Development Institute asked to be formally consulted on the plans). The federal government didn’t even need to initiate development plans: This was Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s baby. All Ottawa needed to do, really, was stand back and let it happen.
This is not a piece about culture war theatre. It’s only about who gets hired to do publicly funded research in this country, and if your instinct is to write that off as coded hostility to diversity, you’re not engaging with the argument, you’re dodging it and you might as well move on because this is going to be a series.
